On "Quoting Terence Tao"

The worry that open problems are a finite resource getting depleted is backwards for SEO. We're drowning in unsolved problems—search behavior is messier than ever, ranking factors shift constantly, user intent keeps fragmenting. The real constraint isn't the scarcity of good questions; it's that most practitioners never systematically ask them in the first place. You don't need to poach Terence Tao's problem set to make progress. You need to stop treating your traffic patterns and ranking anomalies as noise and start treating them as evidence worth investigating. The problem isn't depletion. It's apathy.